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... The quality of the data gathered in any survey or other empirical study heavily depends on the
methods applied in gathering the data. Therefore, we did not want to use ad hoc methods in
our survey. Unfortunately, there seemed not to exist readily-available research instruments for
studying software ...

... sure that the software system under development would meet the requirements specified by the clients and have
the flexibility to accommodate any future requirements. Software architectural design is an intellectual activity
that needs a human skill of creativity to handle it. This activity is concer ...

... able physical manifestation of engineering prowess, dominating benefit from AI techniques. This paper provides a brief analysis
the Paris skyline. By contrast, the scale of the engineering of this development, highlighting general trends, shared and
challenge posed by software remains entirely invis ...

... examples as a proposal to fill these gaps. I reused the layout used by Kevin Rea’s in his articles as I
found them useful and this way the new examples and analogies can be compared and merged more
easily.
There are several actions still to do like base-lining definitions of the 40 principles for SW ...

... statistical methods and artificial neural networks (ANN) for
predicting the software maintenance effort. In this paper, we
make the use of adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system
(ANFIS) to predict the software maintainability in terms of
change proneness. ANFIS is a Sugeno-based fuzzy inference
syste ...

... 1. People who actually work at a job have the best understanding of that job.
2. People who are trained in software development have the best understanding of the
possibilities of that technology.
3. Software-based information systems and business processes rarely exist in isolation – they
transcend ...

... The demand for automated quality inspection is growing, above all in the USA. So in June
2014 ViDi began to investigate the market potential. There are more than half a million people
working in quality control in the United States. This was followed by trade show appearances,
roadshows at dealers a ...

... Often uses the “Delphi technique,” in which decision-makers
provide recommendations for a solution, then several rounds
of communication may occur to reach a consensus
Some forms of GDSS software involve decision-making with
all participants in the same room, and others are designed for
participants ...

... must adhere to all submission procedures of the 24th SEKE 2012, including deadlines and paper format. In
addition to submitting papers via the 24th SEKE 2012 web site (see above for address), authors are required to
submit a copy of their paper(s) by email to Taghi M. Khoshgoftaar and Marek Reformat ...

... WCSE & GCIS 2010 intends to be a global forum for researchers and engineers to present and
discuss recent innovations and new techniques in intelligent systems and software engineering.
WCSE & GCIS 2010 conference proceedings will be published by the CPS which will include the
conference proceedings ...

Richard Stallman

Richard Matthew Stallman (born March 16, 1953), often known by his initials, rms, is a software freedom activist and computer programmer. He campaigns for software to be distributed in a manner such that its users receive the freedoms to use, study, distribute and modify that software. Software that ensures these freedoms is termed free software. Stallman launched the GNU Project, founded the Free Software Foundation, developed the GNU Compiler Collection and GNU Emacs, and wrote the GNU General Public License.Stallman launched the GNU Project in September 1983 to create a Unix-like computer operating system composed entirely of free software. With this, he also launched the free software movement. He has been the GNU project's lead architect and organizer, and developed a number of pieces of widely used GNU software including, among others, the GNU Compiler Collection, the GNU Debugger and the GNU Emacs text editor. In October 1985 he founded the Free Software Foundation.Stallman pioneered the concept of copyleft, which uses the principles of copyright law to preserve the right to use, modify and distribute free software, and is the main author of free software licenses which describe those terms, most notably the GNU General Public License (GPL), the most widely used free software license.In 1989 he co-founded the League for Programming Freedom. Since the mid-1990s, Stallman has spent most of his time advocating for free software, as well as campaigning against software patents, digital rights management, and other legal and technical systems which he sees as taking away users' freedoms, including software license agreements, non-disclosure agreements, activation keys, dongles, copy restriction, proprietary formats and binary executables without source code.As of 2014, he has received fifteen honorary doctorates and professorships (see Honors and awards).